PLEASE Remove The Speed Particles aka Space Rain aka Warp Speed Effects
The new speed particles are ruining my enjoyment of the game. I do not want to feel like I'm using some sort of warp drive when I'm only moving 50 m/s, and when turning, the entire effect turns around my ship and it just looks so horribly fake. The particles, when combined with the horrible sound mechanics (being tied to velocity rather than acceleration), remove all immersion and enjoyment from space travel. I would expect this sort of thing from some arcade-y game like No Man's Sky, not a space simulator like Space Engineers.
Please remove the space particles, the game was so much more fun before they were added. If you want to give players the feeling of using warp drives to get around, then please just give us warp drives instead of making normal space travel feel like warp drive even though it's powered by rocket engines and ion thrusters.
If you want to give players a sense or movement direction in space - then just give us pro-grade and retrograde velocity indicators like in KSP, Star Citizen, Verse Project, In The Black, etc. They would improve the player's understanding of the ship's movement and actually add to immersion, unlike the speed particles which do so at the expense of immersion.
Alternatively, you could change the speed particles into toggle-able space hologram effects, like in the demo for Capital Command. These would be far less obtrusive and wouldn't take away from immersion as they are clearly 3D HUD elements that aid understanding of the ship's movement, not some in-game tiny stars flying past you for some reason while moving through space.
Thank you for reading. I really hope you take this feedback into consideration. I absolutely love a lot of how this game is progressing, but the game's continual drift into the realm of arcade games is something that is making me very worried.
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